Storyteller Claire Keegan takes me by the hand into a faraway place in a distant past that somehow becomes as familiar to me as my own hometown in this century.
Furlong, who seems such an ordinary man, reveals himself as truly extraordinary. The story slowly gains pace and tension. Its telling is so unassuming, yet so sure, it has me spellbound. A veritable cliff hanger.
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him…
The sub-title of this spine-chilling non-fiction says it all: "This is Just Practice."
As an organizer of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and a multi-media journalist who documented much of the action in film, Marisa Holmes tells us about OWS as she experienced it. Examining her records she also reveals how she had hoped it might be—heralding how it might be next time we say ‘No’ or ‘I want some more’.
This book is the first study of the processes and structures of the Occupy Wall Street movement, written from the perspective of a core organizer who was involved from the inception to the end. While much has been written on OWS, few books have focused on how the movement was organized. Marisa Holmes, an organizer of OWS in New York City, aims to fill this gap by deriving the theory from the practice and analyzing a broad range of original primary sources, from collective statements, structure documents, meeting minutes, and live tweets, to hundreds of hours of footage from the…
Abolition sounds destructive, obliterating. But abolition has always been about liberation and change, indeed revolution.
This is the core message of this illuminating manifesto written as if on the barricades: ‘Abolition is a tool to re-imagine revolutionary politics.’ In a wide-ranging set of arguments (theses) and countless stories of transformative activities, Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean show us how revolutionary we might all become.
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everard's murder by a serving police officer sparked a national abolitionist movement in Britain. But to abolish the police, prisons and borders, we must confront the legacy of Empire.
Abolition Revolution is a guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, drawing out rich histories of resistance from rebellion in the colonies to grassroots responses to carceral systems today. The authors argue that abolition is key to reconceptualising revolution for our times - linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class…
Award-winning Beyond Money: Yenomon is a summary 8-minute documentary of Chapter 3 of Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy.
The film responds creatively to the question: "What might a world without money look and feel like?"
It offers a way forward addressing the two great challenges of our time — ecological unsustainability and socio-economic inequities. It has won several awards, mainly for its social and educational documentary values.
